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Emberwind is TimeTrap's main project, a platformer that tries to capture the retro fun of classic games in a fresh environment.
Check out the HD gameplay footage.
On The Emberwind site you can find
everything about the game including manual, backstory and much much more.

Emberwind available on the AppStore

It is finally here! Emberwind and Emberwind HD
Is available in the AppStore worldwide. I can't tell you how excited we are about bringing a great game to even more people.

August 4th, 2011

Emberwind coming soon to the AppStore

Posted by Erik Möller

We're glad to announce that Emberwind is coming soon to the AppStore via Chillingo, the premier publisher of popular iOS games like "Angry Birds" and "Cut The Rope".

July 31st, 2011

Emberwind HTML5 experiment at Opera

Posted by Erik Möller

One of our latest little projects is an exciting experiment trying to leverage the advances in HTML5 and porting parts of Emberwind to run directly in your browser using canvas, WebGL and javascript.
Check out Erik's blog at Opera for progress updates, or follow the progress on twitter.Follow @erikjmoller

July 10th, 2011

Emberwind app shown at PAX

Posted by Erik Möller

Chillingo has been starting to show Emberwind for iOS around and we're really excited about it. Most recently it was shown at PAX, and MODOJO wrote about it after having a look. ...we're looking forward to Emberwind on the iPhone. Besides, we need a break from playing Mario and Sonic. Let's see what this gnome can do.

March 17th, 2011

Infinite Ammo podcast

Posted by Erik Möller

Alec Holowka, creator of the up and coming game Marian, continued his podcast series where he does conversational interviews with indie developers. In episode ten he hosts Chris and talks about the contrast of mainstream and indie development. Go check out the podcast at the Infinite Ammo page, it's well worth a listen.

March 13th, 2011

The Adrenaline Vault

Posted by Erik Möller

The annual Top Casual PC games award at The Adrenaline Vault
has been posted and we're very happy to see Emberwind being picked as one of the twelve winners or one of "the very best hidden computer
treasures that casual gaming has to offer" as Bob Mandel of avault.com put it.
We're always glad to read about people enjoying our game and it's really what drives us to continue doing great indie stuff.

January 27th, 2011

Merry Christmas

Posted by Erik Möller

We wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year filled with lots of great indie games.
As an extra little treat we've put together a seasonal Emberwind icon pack.
Enjoy and see you all next year!

December 23rd, 2010

Emberwind reviewed in Level

Posted by Erik Möller

Emberwind was reviewed in Level, the largest printed game-magazine in Romania. It scored a solid 8/10 which we're glad to see.
If you know Romanian you can read the full review.
For those of us that don't know a word of Romanian, Editor Andrei Licherdopol very kindly provided us with a summary in English.
"Emberwind is a welcome purist casual platformer with an undeniable old-school appeal, blessed with a charming whimsical
fantasy setting that we wished was exploited a bit more by this title. With a definitely well-chosen and charismatic protagonist
that Kindle proves to be (not to mention Wick his mystical owl companion), hilarious enemies and a brilliant (literally)
antagonist, a nice variety of moves and great level design that remains consistent throughout the surprisingly lengthy campaign,
Emberwind turns out a worthwhile and enjoyable experience for both the youngest gamers and the more experienced players that
search a relaxing break from all the gratuitous violence, gore and sexuality that unfortunately drowns the majority of today's
video games. Bring it to your children (or your inner child) with no worries whatsoever!
While neither revolutionary nor perfect and perhaps a tad on the easy side, Kindle's adventure is perfectly worth your time
and money, being also one of the cutest titles to recently hit the market."

December 18th, 2010

Emberwind Anniversary

Posted by Chris Van Yperen

One year ago today, TimeTrap launched its first independent PC/Mac title Emberwind!
The past year Erik and I have gotten a lot of encouraging emails, met a ton of great independent developers
and snuck off for a much needed break. The whole rewarding experience can definitely be credited to our
friends and family, but most importantly to you, our customers.

We thank all of you very sincerely for your purchase, as it provides us with resources to continue doing
what we love to do; making our own games!

So to celebrate Emberwinds first anniversary we are selling it
off our site at 50% off for the rest of the year.
Pick up the free demo and give it a try, if you enjoy playing it as much as we enjoyed making it you
won't be disappointed during the holidays.

Merry Christmas greetings from the Emberwind team.

December 12th, 2010

Emberwind now available in more languages

Posted by Erik Möller

In addition to the newly released Japanese version on DigRetto Emberwind v1.1 is now also available in our own store in more languages.
The Mac version is available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Russian and Japanese.
The Windows version is available in English, Spanish, Polish, Russian and Japanese, for any other languages we refer to our excellent partners at Zylom
and the multilingual version of Emberwind available there.

November 21st, 2010

Japanese Emberwind launches on DigRetto

Posted by Erik Möller

DigRetto launches the Japanese version of Emberwind on their site and has a
special 20% off during launch week! We're thrilled to see yet another localization of Emberwind and hope the good people of Japan will apreciate the game as much as
everyone else. I for one think it looks much cooler in Japanese and will definitely play it again.

November 12th, 2010

Emberwind deluxe released on Zylom

Posted by Erik Möller

We're glad to annouce that the multilingual version of Emberwind was released on Zylom yesterday. Zylom is RealGames Europe's portal.
The game is available in English, German, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, French and Swedish.

September 7th, 2010

Emberwind Icon Pack

Posted by Erik Möller

We've put together a nice little icon pack featuring some of the really nice assets from Emberwind. Enjoy!

Emberwind editors pick on BrotherSoft

BrotherSoft recently recommended Emberwind on their website and made it "Editors pick".

July 21st, 2010

Great Emberwind review

Posted by Erik Möller

Adam at indiegamereviewer.com has posted a very nice and detailed review of Emberwind and we're thrilled to
see it get another 4/5 rating. Go check out the full review.

June 15th, 2010

Emberwind on Direct2Drive

Posted by Erik Möller

We're glad to announce Emberwind is now also available on IGN Entertainment's premier digital distribution portal Direct2Drive.

April 2nd, 2010

Emberwind atlas

Posted by Erik Möller

We've been really busy lately but I'd just like to take the opportunity to remind you the Emberwind atlas
still gets updated with one stage a week. We're now up to Storgatan, closing in on Castle Grendale!

March 21st, 2010

Newspaper interview

Posted by Erik Möller

Dalslänningen, one of the local Swedish newspapers ran a story about me a short while ago.
I got a copy of it sent to me and if you know Swedish I've made a scan available right here.

March 3rd, 2010

Emberwind on the iPhone and iPod Touch

Posted by Erik Möller

TimeTrap teams up with Finnish developer Innogiant to bring Emberwind to the iPhone and iPod Touch
platform this spring. Development has already started and we're really excited about
Emberwind going mobile. Read the full press release
about it.

February 16th, 2010

Newspaper interview

Posted by Erik Möller

TTELA, one of the local Swedish newspapers ran a full page article about me today.
It's pretty neat, not every day I make an appearance in printed media, and I even managed to shave
for the occasion!

Emberwind atlas release (Spoiler alert!)

With the latest post the Emberwind world atlas now covers all the stages leading up to and including The Skeli Vault,
the first boss fight and where the demo experience ends.

February 7th, 2010

Hooked gamers review Emberwind

Posted by Erik Möller

Justin Snyder a.k.a. BlobDude at hookedgamer.com has done a great review where Emberwind
scores a very impressive 8/10. Justin writes "Emberwind is a solid game.
I honestly can't find anything wrong with it"

"I for one will certainly return to the city of Grendale
for some repeat action to fill the time between the big AAA titles releases this spring."
Read the full review at hooked gamers.

February 2nd, 2010

Emberwind review in svt1 morning show

Posted by Erik Möller

Here it is finally,
the review from Swedish TV morning show with english subs.
There's a button to turn them on in youtube if you don't have that enabled already.
The review is obviously aimed at the morning show audience, hence a great deal of time is
spent explaining "indie games", but never the less it's a great review and Emberwind
scores an impressive 4/5.

January 30th, 2010

Interviewed by it24

Posted by Erik Möller

Thomas Arnroth, probably the best known games reviewer in Sweden who has his own segment in
one of the morning shows on national TV, did a review of Emberwind (link to video will
be posted shortly). After the review he did a
follow-up interview with me for it24.se.
Unfortunately it's in Swedish and google translate is doing a pretty poor job with it.

January 27th, 2010

Emberwind metascore

Posted by Erik Möller

Emberwind has been rated by MetaCritic and scores an average of 79 which is rated as
"Generally favorable reviews"."Metacritic's mission is to help you make an informed decision about how to spend your money on entertainment."

January 20th, 2010

ZTGameDomain reviews Emberwind

Posted by Erik Möller

Catastrophe at ZTGameDomain or Cathlin Sentz as her RL name is made a really nice
review of Emberwind scoring an 8/10.
You can tell she's spent a good deal of time in the game and done a thorough analysis pointing out the goods and the bads... water death pits! Ah, yeah what a blunder!
Good thing they're few and far apart. The pits aside she seems to have really enjoyed it and writes:"This 2D platformer is cartoon pretty and intensely cute. If you want a fun platformer, Emberwind is an excellent option and a treat for the $12 price."

January 19th, 2010

Emberwind available through GamersGate

Posted by Erik Möller

TimeTrap are glad to announce Emberwind is now also available through our partner site
at gamersgate.com"GamersGate is a leading digital distribution platform, providing ready gaming experiences for gamers worldwide – anytime, anywhere. Viewed as a strong contender in the digital download arena, GamersGate continues to redefine the download industry. Future strategies include the launch of several additional services, and the further aggressive expansion of its product portfolio, from a wide range of internationally recognized publishers."

January 18th, 2010

Emberwind available through Mac Game Store

Posted by Erik Möller

TimeTrap are glad to announce Emberwind is now also available through our partner site
at macgamestore.com"Launched in April 2005, Macgamestore.com is the largest online Macintosh gaming store on the planet. Our goal is to provide the best shopping experience that Mac gamers deserve with plenty of stock on todays most popular Macintosh games, speedy delivery, and useful information to make purchasing decisions easier."

January 17th, 2010

GamingXP reviews Emberwind

Posted by Erik Möller

Manfred Beck at GamingXP.com has made a
review of Emberwind. It really stretched my high-school German to the limit,
but what a great review! Emberwind scores a very solid 77% and had it not been for the missing
multiplayer it would've scored well into the 80 mark.
German readers, please don't beat me up if I misquote this :) "Ideal for casual gaming, Emberwind also provides enough depth for [serious] long term gaming,
and as was mentioned before, it's suitable to anyone."

January 14th, 2010

Gamerlimit reviews Emberwind

Posted by Erik Möller

Paul at GamerLimit has made a
review of Emberwind scoring yet another 7/10.
In his summary Paul writes:
"If you fondly recall time spent playing old platformers, then Emberwind is most certainly a game
for you. Regardless of any niggling flaws, the game is an almost illegal amount of fun to play."

January 13th, 2010

Emberwind game atlas

Posted by Erik Möller

For the curious gamer we're releasing a complete game atlas on our community page.
Starting today by releasing the maps for "Gnomestead" and "Boulderhood Lake" and continuing
to release a new map every week.

January 11th, 2010

Emberwind MAC version upgraded

Posted by Erik Möller

The Emberwind mac builds have been updated with a fix adressing a
rendering issue appearing on some macs with an Intel GMA 950 graphics cards.
If you have already bought the mac version and want it upgraded please contact us via
the support email.

January 7th, 2010

ApertureGames reviews Emberwind

"Emberwind is a great game for younger players, with very little that would offend, and ultimately how much
you enjoy Emberwind is fully dependant on the challenge you’ll get for it.
I highly recommend you give the demo a try."